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<cd:commandgroup name="setupinitial" xmlns:cd="http://wiki.contextgarden.net/commanddoc/20200807">
<cd:shortdesc>Initials (also known as drop caps, dropped caps, or versals) can be made in ConTeXt using the \{{cmd|placeinitial }} command.
The command <code>\{{cmd|setupinitial</code> }} detailed here is used to customize this decorative or ornate first letter(s) to prose at the start of chapters, sections, paragraphs, and so forth.
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<cd:examples><cd:example title="color, distance, before + variations on n, m , location">The following example produces an awful-looking initial, but it illustrates how some of these parameters work.
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<cd:note author="Garulfo" date="2020-12-12T22:46:03+0100">
Because the space carved out for the initial is rectangular, initials work best with a font with rectangular ornaments around the letter.
